Dominique Goblet

Country:

Belgium

About artist / group:

Dominique Goblet was born in Brussels, where she studied graphic arts, specialising in
illustration. Dominique shows her work in galleries and publishes her stories
in magazines and books. In general, what she seeks to create is an art of
multifaceted narrative. Her painting exhibitions are just another way of
telling, from frame to frame as well as in the whole gallery space, a different
kind of fragmented story. Her comics question the relationships, both deep and
shallow, between human beings. Dominique’s comics work, sometimes bordering on
illustration, draws its essence from painting, and conversely, her paintings
recall the fragmented stories commonly found in comics. As an author, she has
contributed to almost the entire Frigobox series published by Fréon (Brussels)
as well as to several Lapin magazines, published by L’Association (Paris). Her
silent comic was published in the gigantic Comix 2000 anthology (L’Association).
Her work has also appeared in the L’Association au Mexique, a new kind of
travel sketchbook. Her first complete book, Portraits crachés (Fréon) was
published in 1997. Her second book, Souvenir d’une journée parfaite, a complex
story combining autobiography and fiction, was published by Fréon in early
2002. Along with teaching drawing and exhibiting her work, she is preparing
five new projects: a book of illustrations for children (with writer Corinne
Bertrand), three comic books, and the first edition of ‘project Nikita’, named after
her daughter (she and Nikita have been making weekly portraits of each other
since 1998).